For 2026, I will be reviewing a chapter from The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron and providing a free download of themed art cards on a monthly basis (third Tuesdays or not, because 🙆🏻♀️ this post is going live on the fourth Tuesday).
January was a one of the most amazingly productive months I have experienced in a very long time. This serves as an anchoring truth for me right now. Especially because February has felt so s-l-o-w and disjointed.
Progress plans for my creative projects (in tangible terms) have been paused as I focus my time and energies on creative concentration.
“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.” -Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Chapter 2 of The Artist’s Way, “Recovering a Sense of Identity” begins with the topic of trusting our creativity, noting that “we may feel—and look—erratic” and noting that this is all a part of getting unstuck and “pulling free from the muck that has blocked us.”
- Cameron speaks to the cycle of gaining strength but then falling back into self-doubt.
- Noting that we can hold space with these attacks of self-doubt by “seeing them as symptoms of recovery”.
- “These attacks are groundless, but very convincing to ourselves” (Julia Cameron).
“You will learn that it is actually easier to write than not write, paint than not paint, and so forth.” -Julia Cameron
What does all this have to do with right brain planning?
The principal goal of Right Brain Planner is to foster a daily practice of [being present] + [seeing and evaluating] the details of our living by compiling a visual chronicle.
The focus in developing a right brain planning practice is to see our living as ongoing—a timeline [days within years; years within a lifetime].
- To resist the urge to allow a “bad day” or a “bad week” to become a filter—a lens—that limits our ability to hope and live differently.
- Easing away from a performance-based valuation of self-worth; cycling like the moon and exploring so-called irregularity (stops and starts) as a cycle of wholeness.
Right brain planning is an opportunity to allow our journals to be our “planners”—elevating expression and desires over expectations and shoulds.
Right brain planning is a way to foster our sense of identity, of chronicling our phases as we trust our pace and learn that embracing the process of a creative practice enhances our ability to live authentically.
- Use the art in the download below to create cards to use as prompts + reminders for your creative practice:
Thank you kindly for your presence here, Braveheart. 💗
I appreciate your interest and support.
~love & good wishes~
⭐️ I am an artist and curator; I am one who communicates with color, found words and collage, inky marks and doodles as I cycle like the moon (as my calendar), chronicling oracles and abiding with the sky as a meditation.
⭐️ I host creative communities, safe spaces for gathering and sharing. I choose love and creativity for coping with the ongoing challenges of this world and I go to work—not because everything is fine but because I believe art heals.
❤️ Braveheart, as the Creator/Artist of Right Brain Planner I am ever-grateful to have the opportunity to share my creative work online + support other creators! 🎉 For almost 20 years I have had the privilege of sharing my art and writing about right brain planning while also hosting kindred 👭🏽💞👭 communities. ✨ I consider it an absolute 🤸 delight to continue this portion of my creative 📝🖌️✂️🫧 work (even as I retire from full-time work).
- This is possible, in part, by {you} and your presence here. But also because of the support of my Ko-fi patrons and the other member/subscriber communities I host (via their presence, input and paid subscriptions). 🫶
- 💁🏻♀️ Other ways to support my work: ❤️ continue to read this blog + follow me on Instagram. 📲
If you already have your own system of creative journal-planning, but are interested in financially supporting my creative work, you may do so by making a donation:
- Make a one-time contribution in any amount via [this link]. (Thank you!) ❤️